ABSTRACT Skilled care during pregnancy, child delivery, and immediately after the delivery isimportant because itsaves lives of millions of women and newborns and prevent serious and hard to predict complications during pregnancy, delivery or immediately after delivery. Life Saving Skills (LSS) has been in practice by nurses, since 1992, to address maternal mortality and morbidity. However, it is not clear as to what extent the training of nurses and midwives in LSShas contributed to the redu...
ABSTRACT Thestudywasondeterminantsofmothers’ breastfeeding practicesinKadunastate.Four(4) objectives and four(4) research questions were formulated with three(3)null hypotheses. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was drawn from 30 different hospitals in Zaria metropolis. A total population of allnursing mothers who attended ante-natal clinics was, three thousand, two hundred andfive (3,205). Simple random sampling was used to draw a sample size o...
ABSTRACT The study examined the community involvement in the control and management of HIV/AIDS in the implementation of national reproductive health plan in Plateau State. Community involvement, control and management constitute the dependent variables. While the demographic characteristics of age, gender, religion, marital status, location, ethnicity, educational qualification and income level constitutes the independent variables. As the information required to achieve this study was alrea...
Music and action integration have been used in a lot of pedagogical studies in the field of science education. This study sought to situate demographic factors such as sex and educational background to teach mitosis. Using the experimental-correlational design, the level of significance was identified using a t-test for the performance based on the pre and post-tests. Results showed that music-action integration was an effective tool in teaching mitosis compared to the traditional lecture...
The Sociological Ninety ten rules that are proposed in this paper, are based on the fundamental premise that various branches of social sciences like sociology, anthropology and economics are human-centric and are therefore inexact, and vary fundamentally from the more precise and exact sciences like physics, chemistry and mathematics which are characterized by precision and exactitude. A high degree of precision and certainty may not therefore manifest themselves in various branches of the s...
The East African Community members' strategy is focused on achieving smart, sustainable, and inclusive economic growth. This cannot be achieved without the major contribution of skills, knowledge, and innovation, commonly known as human capital formation. It is difficult to believe that these goals could be realized without a good education and training system, training development, better health sector infrastructure, a large diffusion of knowledge in the manufacturing and service sector, an...
This research paper evaluates the elitism present in the design education system in India, focusing on the negative effects of prestigious institutions like IDC IIT, NIFT and NID on student psychology, student suicide rates, and career progression. Through a systematic review of the relevant literature, the paper highlights the impact of intense competition and high-pressure environments in these institutions on student wellbeing, including high levels of stress, depression, and increased sui...
ABSTRACTThe occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda in March 2020 left education in a worrying situation due to the lockdown imposed by the government on all education institutions from nursery to higher institutions. Although both public and private education institutions were closed to limit the spread of covid-19 pandemic, the pandemic greatly affected the private institutions which were largely depending on the learners as their main source of income. The purpose of this study was to e...
The main purpose of this work was to Evaluate the Implementation of the Social Studies Curriculum in Junior Secondary Schools in Enugu State. Out of the six educational zones in Enugu State namely, Agbani, Awgu, Enugu, Nsukka, Obollo-Afor and Udi, Nsukka educational zone was selected for the study. Using proportionate stratified random sampling techniques, 25 social studies teachers in 20 schools in the educational zone were selected. Structure Systematic Observation Schedule (SSOS) and ...
The study was designed to examine Staff motivation as a tool for effective administration of Secondary Schools in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) F.C.T, Abuja. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The main instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and simple percentage. Findings of the study revealed that strategies that could enhance motivation of teachers included payment of salaries as at when...
ABSTRACT This study was about Extrinsic Factors and Teachers’ Interest in Work in Community Secondary Schools, Makete District, Tanzania. The purpose of the study was to test the null hypothesis that “There is no significant relationship between extrinsic factors and Teachers’ interest in work in Community secondary schools, Makete District, Tanzania”, to validate the Expectancy Theory, identifying gaps and generating new knowledge. The general objective of the study was to correlat...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to assess the extent to which the primary school activities in Mayuge district, Uganda relate to the school management committees. Specifically, the study investigated the nature of School Management Committees in primary Schools in Mayuge District, Uganda; the extent to which primary school activities are carried out in Mayuge District, Uganda; as well as the influence of School Management Committees on primary school activities in Mayuge District, Ugand...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between thematic curriculum implementation and pupils` early grade reading skills in public primary schools in Kumi Municipality, Uganda. Guided by three specific objectives: To assess the extent of thematic curriculum implementation, To find out the level of pupils` early grade reading skills, and To establish the relationship between thematic curriculum and reading skills of early grade in Kumi Municipality public primary schools. Descripti...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the contribution of secondary schools in environmental protection in secondary schools in Gasabo District, Rwanda. Specifically, the study sought to; IdentifY the demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of: Gender, category and Class/teaching experience; To investigate the extent and degree of severity of the problem of environmental protection in Rwanda; To assess students and teachers' awareness about issues related to environmental protect...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the school psychosocial environment and the academic achievement of students in secondary schools in Kwanza district .The study involved students and teachers from fifteen schools to provide information based on a standard instrument called the PSE profile adopted from W.H.O. From the findings of the study it was discovered that there was no significant relationship between the psychosocial environment and academic achievement of students...